Asked by: David Hanson (Labour - Delyn)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many personal independence payment assessment appointments have been cancelled by Capita in each year since 2010.
Answered by Penny Mordaunt - Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons
From the start of the contract with Capita in 2013 to the latest data available, January 2017, the number of claimants arriving at an assessment centre for their appointment and unable to be seen is:
| 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 |
Number | 25 | 213 | 277 | 274 | 23 |
Percentage | 0.8% | 0.7% | 0.5% | 0.3% | 0.3% |
The data has been provided by our contracted supplier. The Department does not publish data on the number of Personal Independence Payment assessments cancelled and to check the validity of the data would incur disproportionate cost
Asked by: David Hanson (Labour - Delyn)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on improving pension transition arrangements for women born in the 1950s.
Answered by Lord Harrington of Watford
The Government has been clear that the introduction of further transitional arrangements cannot be justified, given the imperative to focus public resources on helping those who are most in need.
There are no plans to go beyond the £1.1 billion concession introduced when Parliament considered the changes.
Asked by: David Hanson (Labour - Delyn)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he expects Capita to respond to the right hon. Member for Delyn in relation to correspondence dated 1 February, 14 April and 10 June 2016 relating to Mrs M. of Flint.
Answered by Justin Tomlinson - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
The letters to which you refer were received by Capita but not processed in line with their standard procedures. Capita apologises for the delay and any inconvenience caused and are investigating why their procedures were not followed.
Capita sent their reply to the honourable Member on Friday, 17 June.
Asked by: David Hanson (Labour - Delyn)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what service standard he expects of Capita for response times for correspondence from hon. Members relating to personal independence payments.
Answered by Justin Tomlinson - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
Capita aims to respond to correspondence within 20 working days but this is not a contractual service level agreement
Asked by: David Hanson (Labour - Delyn)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average duration has been of face-to-face consultations for personal independence payments in (a) Wales and (b) each postcode area in Wales in each of the last three financial years.
Answered by Justin Tomlinson - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
The average duration of Personal Independence Payment consultation times in (a) Wales and (b) by postcode area of Wales (in minutes) were:
Postcode | 2013/2014 | 2014/2015 | 2015/2016 |
CF | 56 | 54 | 51 |
CH | 58 | 57 | 57 |
GL | 76 | 67 | 66 |
HR | 76 | 73 | 59 |
LD | 67 | 60 | 57 |
LL | 58 | 57 | 56 |
NP | 59 | 59 | 53 |
SA | 61 | 60 | 54 |
SY | 73 | 66 | 59 |
Wales (Total) | 60 | 58 | 54 |
Asked by: David Hanson (Labour - Delyn)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in Wales were awarded personal independence payments in each of the last three years.
Answered by Justin Tomlinson - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
Such information as is available on Personal Independence Payment (PIP) claims in payment, registrations, clearances, awards and average clearance times for both new claims and reassessed claims (for those previously in receipt of Disability Living Allowance (DLA)) are available at a Regional, Parliamentary Constituency and Local Authority level and published on Gov.UK: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/personal-independence-payment-statistics
Asked by: David Hanson (Labour - Delyn)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in Wales have (a) been unsuccessful in claims for personal independence payments and (b) had personal independence payments stopped in each of the last three years.
Answered by Justin Tomlinson - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
Such information as is available on Personal Independence Payment (PIP) claims in payment, registrations, clearances, awards and average clearance times for both new claims and reassessed claims (for those previously in receipt of Disability Living Allowance (DLA)) are available at a Regional, Parliamentary Constituency and Local Authority level and published on Gov.UK: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/personal-independence-payment-statistics
Asked by: David Hanson (Labour - Delyn)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in (a) Wales and (b) each postcode area in Wales will see a reduction in their personal independence payments as a result of changes to the assessment criteria announced on 11 March 2016.
Answered by Justin Tomlinson - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
As confirmed by my right honourable friend the Secretary of State in his statement to the House on 21 March, the proposed changes to PIP will not be going ahead.
We spend around £50bn every year on benefits alone to support people with disabilities or health conditions, with spending on Personal Independence Payment (PIP) and Disability Living Allowance (DLA) having increased by more than £3 billion since 2010. The government is committed to talking to disabled people, their representatives, healthcare professionals and employers to ensure the welfare system works better with the health and social care systems and provides help and support to those who need it most.
Asked by: David Hanson (Labour - Delyn)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in Wales his Department has contacted to notify them of their transfer from disability living allowance to personal independence payments.
Answered by Justin Tomlinson - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
The Department only holds data on the number of Full PIP Rollout claimants they have notified/invited to claim since July 2015. Information on the number of natural reassessment claims notified since October 2013 is not held within our systems. Therefore the information you have requested is not available.
Information on Personal Independence Payment (PIP) claim registrations for both new claims and reassessed claims (for those previously in receipt of Disability Living Allowance (DLA)) are available at a Regional, Parliamentary Constituency and Local Authority level and published on Gov.UK: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/personal-independence-payment-statistics.
Asked by: David Hanson (Labour - Delyn)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in Wales on (a) standard mobility, (b) enhanced mobility, (c) standard daily living and (d) enhanced daily living were receiving personal independence payments in each of the last three financial years.
Answered by Justin Tomlinson - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
Such information as is available on Personal Independence Payment (PIP) claims in payment, registrations, clearances, awards and average clearance times for both new claims and reassessed claims (for those previously in receipt of Disability Living Allowance (DLA)) are available at a Regional, Parliamentary Constituency and Local Authority level and published on Gov.UK: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/personal-independence-payment-statistics